Suncorp Pitt Street Mall | Sydney

Geyer collaborated with Suncorp to develop a destinational store of 400m2 across two levels in the heart of Sydney’s busy retail precinct; the first of its kind on Pitt Street Mall. Geyer and Suncorp pushed the boundaries of what a financial services experience could be, shaping the retail experience around the customer. The result is an inviting environment and an empowering experience where people feel welcomed and comfortable to discuss all their financial needs.

Area

440 m2

Expertise

Cathay Pacific | Singapore

Cathay Pacific’s new lounge is the first business class lounge constructed in the upgraded Terminal 4 at Changi Airport, Singapore. The design features a myriad of high-end spaces that align to Cathay Pacific’s global design guidelines while reflecting the local nuances of the region. The lounge is intuitive, reassuring, practical, friendly and refreshing – reinforcing and strengthening Cathay Pacific’s authentic brand positioning and status as a premium airline.

Area

850 m2

Expertise

Westpac | Perth

Westpac’s striking new headquarters in Perth embraces a relaxed tone driven by local character, delivering a truly agile workplace that sets a new benchmark within the Westpac Group portfolio. The diverse landscape of settings levels encourages the WA team to be adaptable, resilient and connected. The strategic and empathic design invites in the local community and elements of nature.

Opportunity

Toll City is a 7-storey development located in Tuas, Singapore with Toll’s logistics operational headquarters occupying the building’s two upper levels. As leading provider of integrated logistics services in the Asia Pacific region, Toll sought an environment that would support and enhance the company’s brand identity.

Brookfield | Perth

Level 4 108 St Georges is a speculative corporate fit-out in the Perth CBD. Brookfield is showcasing the building and the possibilities for office location through the Geyer designed workplace. The project activates a previously undefined service floor into an integrated fit-out of contemporary, open-plan work and supporting spaces. Brookfield gave the design team creative license to develop the concept beyond the parameters of typical show suite spaces, enabling the delivery of a sophisticated and forward-thinking solution that appeals to a broad range of business clientele.

KWM | Perth

As a leading international law firm headquartered in Asia, King & Wood Mallesons is recognised as one of the world’s most innovative. With a team of over 2000 lawyers in 26 locations around the internationally, KWM wanted their office in Australia to capitalise on new ways of working.

Opportunity

King Wood Mallesons (KWM) were looking to create an innovative workplace. They tasked Geyer to design spaces that would attract and retain the best talent, but also embody a dynamic approach to innovation, knowledge transfer, partner structure, reward and recognition.

Area

Sydney 10,000m2Perth 5,000m2Melbourne 10,000m2Canberra 3,000m2

Awards

Design Institute of Australia (WA) Awards Best in StateDesign Institute of Australia (WA) Best CorporateDesign Institute of Australia (WA) Interior Award of Merit

Westpac | Melbourne

Situated in the iconic 150 Collins Street building, Westpac’s Melbourne headquarters delivers a workplace design focused on the company’s key business strategies; to make people their advantage, reinforce their leadership and focus on sustainability.

Area

Awards

Telstra Icon | Sydney

Telstra’s goal was to create a new, world-class concept where customers and staff can experience a ‘Brilliant Connected Future’ and ‘Improve the way our people live and work’. Following the successful implementation of the Store of the Future concept in the Melbourne Central store, Telstra commissioned Geyer to design a new flagship store concept located on George Street, Sydney and opened in November 2014.

Westpac | Sydney

Westpac’s new headquarters at Barangaroo Tower 2 occupies 60,000m2, accommodates 6,000 people and has set a new benchmark in ABW (activity based working) in regards to a people centric solution. As principle tenant of Barangaroo Tower 2, Westpac’s new workplace is one of the largest office complexes in Australia. With the adjacent Westpac Place, this site will support a potential Westpac workforce of up to 15,000 people.

Suncorp Concept | Sydney

Suncorp wanted to re-shape the retail experience around the customer with a focus on a ‘needs led’ rather than a ‘product led’ environment. The Sydney Paramatta Store breaks down the parameters of traditional banking and creates a place where customers feel welcome and unintimidated about their financial needs.

Awards

Curtin | Perth

A vibrant hub for student experiences at Curtin University. Designed to provide an excellent experience for students and enable staff to provide personalised, responsive and agile customer service in a great working environment.

Telstra Discovery | Melbourne

Using a behaviour-centred design ethos, Melbournes Flagship Discovery Store places customers, staff and communities at its heart, supporting Telstra’s brand to ‘Create a Brilliant Connected Future’ and bridging the physical and online divide for their retail store design.

Opportunity

The building faces Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall and has previously failed as a 2-level retail space. A new retail environment alone would not achieve the level of difference required for success. The new store design must challenge and change ways of thinking and doing. The interior design needed to change staff assumptions and behaviours. It had to change the function and responsibility of a ‘retail store’. The new fitout must offer ways of integrating digital, physical and human touchpoints. A successful store refurbishment would create ‘signature’ experiences to educate and add value to customers visits, so they leave ‘better off’.

Bank of Melbourne | Melbourne

A new, contemporary agile head office workplace for 360 people gives Bank of Melbourne a platform to support, nurture and realise their potential. It will drive continued success. The new workplace at Rialto needed to define and differentiate the bank from their ‘older brother’, Westpac. It also needed to provide a place for customers and the community to meet and engage.

Area

Heinemann | Sydney

The largest, stand-alone tax and duty free store in the world, Heinemann’s new Tax & Duty Free retail environment at Sydney Airport also brings curated, local products to international travellers. The retail design focus was on understanding the unique requirements of a travelling shopper. Their pressures, needs and mindsets are vastly different to a regular shopping centre customer.

Geyer supported Sephora’s entry into the Australian market as Architect-of-Record. They have rolled out 9 retail stores across Australia starting with the fit out of Sydney CBD flagship store.

Tesla | Sydney

This immensely-successful startup’s entry into the Australian market required showrooms that reflected the calibre of this brand. We’ve been working with Tesla’s design team in Fremont California to adapt the Tesla prototype showroom for its application to Australian sites.

Auchmuty Library | UoN

Creating a modern, flexible and collaborative study space to the improve student experience. The University of Newcastle sought to refurbish a lounge area of the Auchmuty Library, located on the Callaghan Campus University of Newcastle. This formed a further stage of the incremental modernising of the Library.

Upgrade Program | UoS

Student Admin Services | UoS

The Student Administration Services (SAS) Hub at the University of Sydney manages the student lifecycle from admissions and enrollment, and throughout their candidature. The University was intent on providing better, more efficient services through one central hub.

Moore College | Sydney

Rabobank | Sydney

Rabobank HQ is a pioneer of agile working. It's parent company, Interpolis put in place the world’s first recognised agile workplace model in the Netherlands. Rabobank turned to Geyer to design and instigate a similar business transformation in Australia. A new working environment to house a ‘nomadic colony’ that would create a ‘cooperative knowledge exchange’ where visitors could experience the cultural attributes of warmth, commitment and expertise that differentiates Rabobank.

Area

JWT | Sydney

JWT’s new Sydney office marries brand and building rebirth. On Sydney’s CBD fringe, the emergent workplace supports the recent global rebranding and celebrates JWT’s local presence with a fresh face - a unique, dynamic space. The refurbishment of JWT’s new premises in a heritage conversion in Pyrmont was the perfect opportunity to trial the ABW concept within WPP’s portfolio of businesses.

HBF HQ | Perth

Bringing wellness to HBF’s new Perth HQ. Every design decision was led by HBF’s key guiding vision for their new headquarters – to create an inspiring environment centred around wellbeing, a space that encourages, promotes and showcases everyday movement. It is an opportunity to showcase its cultural transformation from a traditional health insurer to an organisation focused on the health and wellbeing of its staff and members, as well as the Western Australian community.

Area

8,800 m2

Expertise

CapitaLand | Singapore

The new CapitaLand headquarters located within CapitalTower in Singapore is future focused. The office interior design needed to be flexible enough to meet today’s needs and to remain relevant in the long term. CapitaLand's key drivers were Porosity, Camaraderie, Character, Progressiveness and Endurance. The interior design was an opportunity to engrain these concepts in the workplace. They wanted to align the physical space with the working styles to foster collaboration, creativity, connectivity, flexibility and a more egalitarian operating model.

Barrick Gold | Perth

Gold miner Barrick approached Geyer to consolidate offices into one ‘home’, but also used the move as an opportunity to encourage behavioural transformation. Geyer was given the opportunity to recommend the location of the building through a building assessment. We were then engaged to design a new working environment and fitout for the chosen building.

BHP Billiton | Melbourne

Not just another office for BHP Billiton, it's Melbourne’s first Premium Grade commercial building in 20 years. As the global HQ of one of the world’s leading companies, the headquarters would be the place the world will look to for evidence of BHP Billiton’s leadership and stewardship, on a global and human scale. Operational efficiency was also a primary driver, with all decision-making measured against BHP Billiton’s charter of simplicity, accountability, sustainability, performance, and integrity.

Squire Sanders | Perth

Law firms are not longer chestnut and brown. Changing attitudes and new technologies sweep away the cobwebs. When Minter Ellison established its own office in Perth, Squire Sanders took this opportunity to develop a new, independent culture and wanted its workplace to reflect this. Above all, they wanted a space that would connect them to each other and to clients. They wanted a timeless elegance that would stand the test of time. They also saw this an opportunity to adopt newer working styles in an open, transparent environment.

Qantas Lounge | Brisbane

Qantas makes sure that every airport doesn’t ‘look the same’. They want to exceed the expectations of their premium business travellers with a unique luxury experience in every airport. Qantas approached Geyer to create a world class hospitality design within brand guide lines, but would also reflect the flavours of the region.

Di Bella | Perth

Next Hotel | Brisbane

Owned by Singapore-based SilverNeedle Hospitality Group (SNH), Chifley Hotel at Lennons was an underperforming asset. They trusted Geyer to transform the 40 year old shell into the worlds first 4.5 star NEXT Hotel. The new hotel design encompassed the refurbishment of existing guest rooms and lobby, 150 new rooms and significant upgrades to building infrastructure. Completey new hospitality environments were added new pool, restaurants, bars, and retail environments.

The Pier | Melbourne

A leading edge destination venue located on the iconic Cunningham Pier in Geelong.

American Express | Singapore

American Express were looking to their new accommodation to help them achieve business goals and cultural aspirations. The project was to drive further development of the American Express ‘Bluework’ program, which combines property, human resources and technology to achieve a workplace that is more responsive to the demands of today’s workers and their business.

Opportunity

Two new Singapore workplaces – one a new suburban development MBC and the other a smaller city hub MBFC provided the company with the opportunity to leverage investment in infrastructure, technology and tools to drive growth and service efficiency.

A SPACE TO LEARN

Making space for otherscreates a service-oriented mindset.

The selfless art of hospitality

It's theatre. It's discovery.It's a gift.

We love our retail therapy

Geyer is a leading strategic design practice specialising in workplace, education, retail, and hospitality interior environments. We are dedicated to interior design. It's all we do. And we do it well. We are not an architectural firm looking to 'value add'. We have no divided agenda.

No company has been more involved in the evolution of the workplace, or more instrumental in meeting the challenges of shifting workforce demographics and promoting employee well-being.

We believe the best way to drive engagement and productivity is to harness the power of your greatest asset, your people, by creating a space that nourishes them and enables them to leave the workplace healthier and happier and more inspired than when they arrived.

Geyer's experience working with Australia's leading educational institutions provides us with an in-depth understanding of university aspirations and the practical needs of campus infrastructure.

Education in the 21st century is a global industry. The development of a physical campus eco-system can play a significant role in attracting and retaining students. Our focus on supporting vibrant communities that deliver fulfilling student experiences ensures we remain at the forefront of this exciting industry sector.

Geyer's focus on improving the human experience through design is well demonstrated in the hospitality sector, where every tiny detail of that experience is judged, every positive treasured and any fault remembered.

It's a challenge we readily accept, an opportunity to master the wide variety of disciplines found in the hospitality environment and to turn our skills to indulging the senses of your most demanding customers.

Geyer has worked with hundreds of businesses to deliver retail projects across Asia Pacific. We have an extensive track record designing retail solutions for global companies such as Apple, Telstra, ANZ, Nike, Qantas, Tesla and Suncorp.

Strategy led interior design drives organizational performance by focusing on supporting your business effectiveness. Our team identifies issues and exploits opportunities that are unique to your business, culture and location.

By engaging early and deeply with your stakeholders,Geyer works with you to realise the potential of next evolution of design standards, advances in technology and applied psychology. Geyer has been at the forefront of the ‘science of space’ for more than 40 years and continues to break new ground by applying research and learnings across sectors and industries.

Strategy led interior design drives organizational performance by focusing on supporting your business effectiveness. Our team identifies issues and exploits opportunities that are unique to your business, culture and location.

By engaging early and deeply with your stakeholders,Geyer works with you to realise the potential of next evolution of design standards, advances in technology and applied psychology. Geyer has been at the forefront of the ‘science of space’ for more than 40 years and continues to break new ground by applying research and learnings across sectors and industries.

Change doesn’t happen because of new surroundings,processes and equipment – people make change happen. You need to inform and educate your people in a way that aligns with the company’s culture and communication style.

Setting expectations, communicating the right information at the right time and offering an insight into business drivers is essential. Training in new skills and processes will ensure great outcomes. Otherwise reverting to past working habits is likely and the business benefits of the change will be lost. Geyer offers several Change Management solutions.

Change doesn’t happen because of new surroundings,processes and equipment – people make change happen. You need to inform and educate your people in a way that aligns with the company’s culture and communication style.

Setting expectations, communicating the right information at the right time and offering an insight into business drivers is essential. Training in new skills and processes will ensure great outcomes. Otherwise reverting to past working habits is likely and the business benefits of the change will be lost. Geyer offers several Change Management solutions.

Education Design Approach

Each unique university vision is applied to the practical needs of the campus infrastructure services. All stakeholders input to the process, to create student spaces that are practical and flexible. We align the design to campus wide procurement and facility management. The resulting spaces position institutions globally, with a view to greater community and corporate engagement and collaboration.

Capability and Knowledge

Geyer’s expertise across retail, hospitality and corporate sectors feeds our in-depth understanding of how to provide an optimum experience for both customer (the student) and service provider (university).

Our experience in the tertiary education sector includes:

Formal and informal teaching areas and learning facilities

Researching intensive strategies which align university objectives to global best practice

Creating public and community spaces that engage diverse user groups

Library design and refurbishment which incorporates state of the art technology, changing flexible service requirements and 21st century student learning paradigms

Staff workplace including the evolution and development of industry standards.

Key To Success

Success is creating inspiring, engaging and differentiated student experiences while providing ‘best in class’ university services. To support sustained success, administrative staff require the support of efficient systems and workplaces that promote communication and teamwork.

Research Driven

We research global best practice and influences upon the future of education. We invest with our clients and alliance partners globally in the development of knowledge, ensuring we remain at the forefront of educational design.

Our Sydney studio has a long history of employing top scoring, research driven graduates from the Faculty of the Built Environment at UNSW to complement our strategic team.

We create customer-centric environments in public spaces such as retail precincts, airport terminals, shopping centres and hospitality spaces. There are significant synergies across all of Geyer’s areas of practice. We share knowledge and insights across our diverse portfolio to inform and challenge our thinking.

Supporting Stakeholder Engagement

Effective stakeholder consultation is critical within a tertiary environment. We’re highly experienced in facilitating buy-in across the multiple faculties, students and project sponsors. Our engagement process is effective in helping diverse groups identify and prioritise their goals. We provide a framework for accountability and managing risk, which can be used to support decision-making.

Undertaking the Role of Principal Consultant

Geyer has undertaken the role of Lead Consultant for numerous projects and is accustomed to coordinating the roles of additional consultants, e.g. Building Services Engineers, Structural Engineers, Quantity Surveyors, Programmers, Fire Engineers, Retail Consultants, Statutory Compliance Consultants (DDA and Building Certification) and Business Consultants. Developing a clear brief at the outset of the project is vital to ensuring a successful solution. This brief is informed by and has the buy-in of key stakeholder groups.

Projects

We bring a strong track record in working with:

The University of Sydney

Monash University

UTS

Queensland University

Curtin University

Macquarie University

University of Adelaide

Murdoch University

University of Western Australia

Geyer has undertaken a significant audit of 400 Learning Spaces across all UNSW campuses, coupled with a research into local and global best practice.

We have worked with The University of Queensland to develop a five-year strategy and design solution for Next Generation Student Interfaces across their entire library portfolio. Significantly, we worked with the library staff of the Fisher Library, University of Sydney, to provide a state of the art technology integrated information service.

Geyer collaborated with the Australian Hearing Hub at Macquarie University to create a Centre for Hearing Excellence. The centre combines research departments from a number of university faculties, commercial enterprises and the not-for-profit sector – all striving to improve the quality of life of those with hearing impairments.

Geyer’s substantial history of working with Curtin University across technical learning space, workplace and student service hubs has included multi-stakeholder briefing, design services and delivery on site. Geyer’s work on multiple technical environments at Curtin, such as laboratories for B311 Environment and Agriculture and B301 Physics, exemplifies the degree of rigor in briefing documentation and delivery to ensure the successful outcomes of these complex spaces.

At Geyer, we have a track record designing agile workplace solutions for national and global clients such as Westpac, Citi, BHP Billiton, Singtel and Rabobank. This extensive experience offers unique value to your project, bringing evidence-based decision making to your door and offering flexibility, diversity and functionality forged through the successful delivery of over five thousand projects across Asia Pacific.

Cross Sector Experience

Our team combine insights from it's in-depth experience across all sectors with global workplace benchmarks to offer unique value to your project. This knowledge is incorporated into a tailored strategy that drives the design of your business environment. Activity Based Working (ABW) and agile approaches are married to evidence-based decision making to create flexibility, diversity and additional functionality, aligned to varying work styles.

We Don't Stand Still

In a dynamic market, reliant on emerging technology, we can’t stand still. We must take insights from what has gone before to continue to evolve the principles and approaches to working.

Underpinning Geyer’s approach is our knowledge regarding global best practice and the factors influencing the future of the workplace. We continually invest in the development of research that ensures Geyer remains at the forefront of workplace transformation and design. We expand our knowledge with the involvement of our clients and global alliance partners.

Our Approach To Design

As interior specialists, we know the impact property and accommodation has on an organisation’s business objectives, culture and brand. Our goal is to support you in providing an environment which gives you a competitive advantage - one which allows staff to collaborate, create, and for you to retain top talent.

We believe that creativity and innovation in workplace design is a combination of two processes:

Looking at the things differently, and

Identifying unique responses to your key differentiators

To 'think differently' Geyer has developed a creative process to challenge and provoke new ideas. Our strategic briefing process begins with a big picture view of your business and its context. As we drill down, we continue to challenge your assumptions about the way the physical environment supports your people, and we challenge ourselves to do the same. In following this proven process, we identify unseen opportunities and ensure we will deliver innovative solutions.

Our process uncovers unique competitive advantages by tapping into ideas and aspirations that would not be unearthed through a traditional functional briefing process. Our approach is informative, collaborating with you and the wider consultant team to explore the opportunities, challenge the norms and create an inspiring environment.

Activity Based Working

Geyer designs workplaces with highly flexible spaces and tech solutions that evolve as work practices and technology change over time. We design future-proofed, large scale work environments for clients such as Westpac, CapitaLand, Citibank, Rabobank, TAL and BHP Billiton. These spaces have all successfully evolved without fundamental changes to their fit out.

Our evidence-based solutions create a diverse workplace. However, we aim to minimise componentry to a simple toolkit. We achieve simplicity with add-ons that create flexible spaces, diverse environments and extended functionality aligned to work styles. Solutions reflect your local circumstances and needs, and can be expanded into fully integrated Activity Based Working (ABW) solutions.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Ultimately, one solution does not fit all and an understanding of all aspects of a business is required before the best solution can be established.

Agile Work Practices

We don’t rely on assumptions or a pre-existing notion of what is required. Our teams respond to your needs. We take a collaborative approach to working with you and project consultant teams. This recognises the importance of a range of contributions and perspectives, constructive dialogue and a willingness to collectively pursue exceptional outcomes.

To successfully transition a workplace to an agile work environment, it’s important that the following are considered and aligned:

1. Technology to enable mobile working

A consistent technology solution must be provided. This typically enables mobile working through a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or laptop strategy. Additionally, allowing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and providing WI-FI will enable your team to work anywhere, anytime in a flexible manner.

2. Workplace design

The physical environment must include a diverse range of spaces to support agile working. These spaces cater for the varied ways that individuals like to complete tasks. Employees choose where and how they want to work, such as a quiet spots for focused work or collaborative areas for noisy teamwork.

3. People

For many people, mobile working is new and unfamiliar, which may lead to resistance. What’s the readiness of your people to commence agile working? Do your people have paper-based work practices and a reliance on hard copies or are they accustomed to digital storage practices? Are your managers ready to manage people that they can’t ‘see at the same desk’ every day? Do your people feel that they are ‘allowed to’ work in a different location? Implementing a change management and communications program to familiarise your people with agile work practices and how they need to change their behaviour in the new environment is recommended.

4. Policies

It’s important to develop protocols and policies that support agile work practices. Examples include; room booking policies and guidance around the way spaces should be used. It’s important that everyone shares common goals to effectively transform a company’s way of working; those groups include leadership teams, facility management, HR, technology and real estate teams.

Geyer has worked with local and international companies to deliver unique tailored hospitality environments across Asia Pacific. Our team has an extensive track record designing food and beverage destinations, executive lounges and lifestyle destinations.

Core Geyer competencies of curiosity, intelligence, collaboration and empathy allow us to create the "Third Space" environments. We merge our in-depth experience across industry sectors with global trends as we design high value hospitality experiences.

Cultural sensitivity and local context feeds the design process to develop unique places and experiences across the overlapping spheres of work, lifestyle, wellbeing and happiness.

Capability and Knowledge

Geyer’s inspiring hospitality environments are designed through a process of exploration and discovery. We embrace projects that combine thought, feeling and lifestyle. The key is identifying potential opportunities at the conceptual stages of the project. This allows us to push the boundaries of form, function and feeling to offer a truly unique solution.

Our hospitality capabilities include:

Establishing stakeholder vision identifying core values

Understanding design objectives

Establishment of key design/business objectives

Ideation and strategic innovation

Pushing boundaries of current trends

Tactical design process to drive best possible outcome

Understanding location and context

Driven by the user experience

Bespoke methodology to branding and offer

New concept prototyping and testing

Collaborative and open attitude

Expertise in all technical aspects of project delivery

Key to Success

Geyer understands that each stage of work has objectives that require testing and workshopping. This ensures that each phase incorporates lateral thought processes and addresses the core values of the project.

This includes:

Effective communication tools

Continual open communication of design to all parties

Generation of design ideas to counter the ‘formulaic’ approach

Geyer’s success is based on our principle of committing core project team members with complementary skills and experience across briefing, design and delivery. In this way, we ensure continuity throughout the project and for longer-term relationships.

We combine innovation with strategy to drive business outcomes. This approach creates spaces that inspire engaging experiences and enhance customer behaviour. The focus is always to optimise return on investment across sales, brand, culture and the business. Geyer’s Knowledge Team research market drivers and trends that we combine with our insight and experience to establish new benchmarks in retail design.

Geyer is driven to design at the highest level. We embrace the opportunity to work on projects that evoke thought and feeling in your customers. We combine global retail and lifestyle trends with the sensitivity of local context to deliver truly unique places and spaces.

Innovation is at the core of this process. This innovation is combined with strategy implementation to substantiate the business model for change. The ultimate benefit within any project is the opportunity to challenge ourselves and our clients. We are proud to work together with our clients to establish industry benchmarks.

Capability and Knowledge

Geyer’s retail experience spans precinct master planning and refurbishment to concept design and network development projects. Our focus is on retail design that reinforces our client’s point of differentiation and market positioning. This intelligent approach improves the overall customer experience.

We have an in-depth understanding of processes, policies, protocols and approvals required throughout the program implementation for leading Australian and international brands. We understand the requirements of shopping centre owners, developers and operators, including their multiple stakeholders as well as the interplay between the building, tenant mix and individual retail design solutions.

We seek deep insights into customer behaviour, their drivers and needs, taking full account of the changes they are experiencing in multi-channel purchase options. Our experience is underpinned by an appreciation of retail best practice in relation to translating brands into tangible customer experiences in-store and aligned with online and other touch points.

Retail Design Services

Geyer develop bespoke services and methodologies to suit your project needs. This ensures key stakeholders are involved and specific business deliverables and outcomes are realised during the project. We evolve our services as the retail sector's needs change.

This evolution may involve partnering with other diverse and specialist professionals such as digital experience designers, social behaviourists and placemakers. We are entrepreneurial and always looking for new ways to bring our client’s business benefits and growth through the impact of great design.

Key to Success

Our approach is founded on teamwork as a fundamental element to ensure innovation, pragmatic creativity and high-quality deliverables.

Supporting Geyer’s approach:

broader retail design experience.

understanding of retail best practice in translating brands into tangible customer experiences in-store, aligning retail with online and other touch point experiences from a wide range of consumer retail environments across a variety of industries.

As well as translating a client’s design standards into each site, we consider locational and site-specific requirements. Geyer also prepares and submits for all town planning and authority approvals, including the coordination of all service consultants and traffic engineers.

Working with Global Retailers

Geyer brings a depth of experience to undertaking the Architect-Of-Record role in retail environments for overseas-based clients including Apple, Sephora, Nike, Citi, Harley Davidson, Tesla, Heinemann and fashion retailer, Abercrombie and Fitch.

Geyer works with international retailers to develop store design concepts to suit the Australian market.

This experience includes assisting our clients with initial entry works:

delivering and adapting global concepts and standards within the local market

the documentation of the design

delivery of the environments

This role is important for clients so that they understand Australian regulations; particularly with local building regulations, Australian building standards, the Disability Discrimination Act and local government/council permitting processes. Our knowledge of these regulations enables us to best achieve creative solutions to maintain international design standards.

Innovation is at the core of this process. This innovation is combined with strategy implementation to substantiate the business model for change. The ultimate opportunity of any project is to challenge ourselves and our clients as we work together to establish industry benchmarks.

Retail Design Approach

Our approach comes from a passion to positively impact our clients' businesses and the spaces they create for their customers. It’s human-centred, creatively fueled and draws from experience ranging from precinct master planning to new concept flagships, rollouts and retail standards.

Our strategies and creative approach takes into account the impacts technology and social trends are having on human behaviour within multi-channel sales experiences. A brand integration and workplace culture specialist works within our core retail team, ensuring the translation of the essence of a client’s brand and culture. This guarantees an integrated concept, safeguards that your brand is embedded into all our design solutions.

Strategy and Rigor

A Strategy Phase is conducted prior to commencement of the Concept Design to maximise the value of your investment. This strategy phase provides the entire project team and stakeholders with an agreed vision and framework for progressing through the project. Most critically, it aids the prioritisation of goals and sustainability of outcomes. This phase requires commitment from stakeholders and contribution of market intelligence from other specialists and consultants.

Collaboration

The different specialists add immense value in the Strategy Phase to develop and elaborate the possibilities and opportunities inherent within the project. Geyer brings the best out of the group through active collaboration and facilitation of communication.

Knowledge and Insights

Geyer has a dedicated Knowledge Team, which ensures current knowledge of the market drivers and changes. We gather factual material on new initiatives in various sectors throughout the world. Our internal knowledge sharing platform ‘Genius’ focuses on recent study trips, research projects, design discoveries and initiatives, continuing our commitment to being globally connected and aware.